Get the best tips for painting a house and estimates the cost. Get ready for outdoor painting with our expert guide!
Painting a house may seem like a big project: if you are going to do it yourself, you can immerse it much of the summer vacation and if you work with a painting shop, it barks at a more significant piece of the content of the purse. In both cases, work planning in advance and early preparation make work easier and keep the costs under control.
Evaluation of the cost of painting a house
The share of the paint represents only a small fraction of the total cost of painting the house, most of the costs go to work. So if you want to save on expenses, you should definitely do the job yourself or work.
In order to make a price estimate of the goal, the comparison must take into account the sufficiency of the goal in addition to comparing the price per liter. Linseed oil -based paints are very sufficient, although they vary slightly depending on the type of paint. The linseed oil paint is the most sufficient of Uula's products, as the surface is thinly painted twice, while the petroleum oil paint paints a rich top coat, only once.
It is easy to calculate the amount of paint needed with a product -specific paint calculator on the product. The counter is given the number of wall areas and the number of treatments to be painted. It is a good idea to calculate the wall area by multiplying the width of the wall at its height all the way to the brush. In this way, the estimate is slightly over the top. In addition, the porosity of the surface is influenced by the paintbase. The coarse saw surface absorbs a little more paint than a smooth planed surface.
If you want to do the job with a painting shop, you may want to request a quote from several stores in good time. If you are aware of the paint type you want to paint the house, you should mention it as soon as you request a offer.
Preparing for a house painting
It is a good idea to plan outdoor painting in advance in the early spring if you decide to do the painting yourself. Before painting, the first thing to consider is the need for painting racks, a crane and a ladder, as well as the groundwork for the surface to be painted, which may be more time expected, especially in the case of maintenance painting and the old paint has cracked and has been in poor condition. Are there enough surface work for surface washing and mold protection, or has the old paint have come off so that the decaying points have to be crushed out? Is the surface suitable for glass buzzing or is it best to do the paint by hand? How high is the façade, are the ladder enough or do you need a crane or racks at least for some time? Do they borrow them or do they have to rent them?
Personal crane or wheeled racks are the most convenient when you have to move from wall to wall several times. If there are few groundwork and only one painting, one wall can be completed at once. If there are plenty of groundwork and two paintings, easy -to -move racks are the best option. The paint dries on one wall in peace while other walls are to be painted.
Groundwork in painting a wooden house
Before painting, it is advisable to invest in the groundwork, as well -done groundwork guarantees a lasting result.
If the paint surface is in good condition and the paint does not crack or come off, just cleaning the paint surface and mold protection. If the paint surface has become deteriorated, all the old paint that is detached and poorly attached is removed first, for example, by Makkrappa. In the case of red soil or cooking paint, the old paint is removed from the surface by brushing the root brush.
After removing the loose paint, the surface is washed with Uula paint cleaning , or Uula mold was washed if the surface has a mildew, and when the surface dries, a liquid mildew protection , which can be lifted to the wall, for example, with a garden spray. The mold protection dries in about a day, after which the painting work can be started.
The new wood surface is protected with mold protection and primed with thinned paint according to the instructions for that paint. The cooking paint does not require primer, but when painting as loose boards, for example, primer can be done by thinning the cooking paint with a 1: 1 mold protection.
The painting technology matters
Each type of paint has its own characteristics, which also affect painting technology. Traditional linseed oil paint is thinly painted twice, treading or rubbing tight wood, causing the paint to stick and absorb best. The too thick coat of paint may become wrinkled as it dries.
Petrol oil paint and linen oil paint are more pigmented and therefore excellent covering of traditional linseed oil. They are used to make topcoating in a generous one -time painting, meaning that the paint can be applied more to the surface more.
The cooking paint is painted in a single painting, the roslag mahogany twice. To achieve the best result, you should read the painting instructions for the paint type of your choice on the uula.fi website.
To make the painting imprint as beautiful and even as possible, it is advisable to apply the paint to one or two boards or logs at a time and then smooth out with a brush from end to end of the tree. Different directions of painting, carelessly abundant points, or retrospective patches may appear as irregularities on the paint surface.
Schedule the painting correctly
Early summer is usually the best painting time in Finland, as the rainfall is low and the humidity is low. Oil paints need a temperature of at least +10 degrees, but the Roslag mahogany is +5 degrees and you can paint with the temperature on the plus side. It is also advisable to plan the schedule of painting work closer to the time of the day and the weather.
Heat and light accelerate the drying of the oil paints, but in direct sunlight, do not paint. It is also advisable to avoid the surface of the sun, and as the sun moves from the wall, it must be allowed to cool for a while before painting. Direct sunshine can raise the wooden wall surface to up to +80 degrees, whereby the oil in the paint may lift bubbles as it dries.
If a heat period and a cloudless sky occur at the time of painting, it may not be that the south wall can only be painted in the evening when the sun has moved to the west. It is then best to schedule a western wall painting early in the morning.
The surface to be painted must always be dry, and for example in late summer, when the moisture of the night is still felt in the air in the morning, the painting must be scheduled to the morning or midday when the moisture has evaporated.
If the house's painting is left in the middle
Sometimes the circumstances are all of our best intentions and plans, and it may happen that the painting work is not completed one summer, but some of the painting must be moved to the next summer. In the case of a new wood surface, priming is enough to protect it over the next summer.
If there is no time to make primer, or if there are other good reasons for the transfer of the painting, such as leaving a new tight planed log surface, a clean wood surface can be treated with Uula Home Protection , which protects the wood surface over the winter. If the planer surface is left to pry for two years, mold protection will be re -made in late summer before the second winter.
